OnthePa(fion. 313 incxpredible love of our bleif~d Savi?ur and Redeemer; whieh are the -1nofl: 1111portant leifons that we can learn. This n1ade · the .bldfed Apofile to determine ia k;;orzv 11othing but Chrijl, .and him crucijied*, to .count all thing·s but lofs, fir the excel/en- . cy· of the knowledge of Chrifl Jejiu hi.; Lord t. I__.'et n1e therefore exhort you to fix the eyes ofyour n1ind, and call up your n1ofl: ferious attention; reach hither the hand of your faith, and thrufl: it into the hole of your Saviour's fide; put your fingers· into the print of th.e n~ils; lay to heart all the paf– fages ofhis lamentable fiory; and this cannot .chufe but melt your hearts, unlefs they b.e harder than the rocks., and deafer than the 'bodies in the grave. Let us fix our eyes, I fay, on tl1is afroniihing object, .rill our eyes affect our hea_rr :t, that while we are mufing·, tbe fire may burn. ·Let us n1ourn for thofe fins wherewith we have crucified the Lord of glory, and be gr ieved that ever we ihould have put him to fo much anguiih and pai.n; .and let us vowaperpetual cnn1ity againft our lufl: s and corrupt affeCtions, which would crucify hin1 afreih, aud put him unto open ihamc..Let us confi der and admire the won– ..derful 'love of our dying .Saviour) that our D d fouls "" .! Cor. ii, 2 . t Phi!. i ii. 8. t Lam. iii. SI.
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